Ulysses, Is There a Difference Between Dante and Joyce?

The Ulysses is set on this particular date that seemed to have a mystical significance to him, June 16th, 1904. It was the first date with Nora, I think you did mention that, right? Yeah, yeah. Dante did that too, when he met Beatrice, that was fateful for his whole literary career. He associated her with the number nine, and that wound up structuring all of the divine comedy. There's a lot of Shakespeare in Ulysses, like there's almost as much Shakespeare reference as there is Homer reference,. Right, right. Well, and then also, we'll get to that, we will get to that.